I’ve been on the job for two weeks and have been on the road in training for this entire week. My instructors were either complete dickheads or fucking assholes to me the whole time but I took it because I was making the most money I’ve ever made. Today I finally get a different instructor but this dude’s only been on for 5 months rather than the other veterans who’ve been on for 5+ years and he was honestly pretty alright to me.
End of the day starts to roll around and we get a call for a dude with a flat and a spare tire on the interstate. We go to roll up to him and we’re looking by the exit he said he was next to and he wasn’t there. We look to the left shoulder (North America) and sure enough there’s our inbred dipshit right across the road honking his horn, waving his hand trying to get us to roll across 4 lanes of traffic and presumably reverse over to him.
I really doubt he thought that far ahead but that’s all that we could do to reach him that way. So we head off the exit and try to call dispatch for a f250 or f450 (we’re in a Prius) to either give us a block (basically block off a lane) so we’d have less chance of getting smashed like a coke can or just take the call off us altogether.
After that we call dispatch and they don’t pick up. Period. Didn’t even return the call later on. Not even just that, it rang for a second and they rejected the call. They made a deliberate decision to leave us.
Well anyway my trainer decides to go back to him and at least try to service the guy. We get there, set up our cones and take out our equipment and my trainer starts talking to the guy while I try to maintain a lookout over the cars speeding 80+ miles over. Dude doesn’t even have a spare, he straight fucking lied on the report. We tell him we can’t do anything except get it towed and he just keeps saying “how do you know I don’t have a spare”? First off we checked top to bottom inside and out, second ITS YOUR FUCKING CAR HOW DO YOU NOT KNOW YOU DONT HAVE ONE?! (No we didn’t actually say that to him) this isn’t even some stupid kid either, no this is a grown ass man around 40-60ish.
So we get back to tell dispatch they’ll need to send a tow because they’re not picking up the phone… And that’s that. I’m not fucking going back. We got a memorial to two guys that got killed around Easter this year and I’m getting the fuck out before I join them, I’m damn lucky I didn’t join them today.